Earth Rank Middle Level (Seeking recommendations, seeking chase)

Under Hu Qian's lead, Xu Haoyu and the other four quickly left the Treasure Pavilion, then soon went their separate ways.

Xu Haoyu did not return to his residence. Instead, he left the bounds of Canaan City and headed for a forest in the nearby mountains.

He was going to cultivate a new cultivation art and was worried that the commotion would be too great, so he did not do so within the academy grounds and instead chose this uninhabited forest.

After carefully scouting the area and confirming that there was no danger nearby, Xu Haoyu found a Mountain Cave that was easy to conceal himself in and decided to cultivate his art there.

His cultivation art was simply too special. The Guiyi True Art could fuse with other cultivation arts, and unless someone was particularly close to him, it was best not to let them know. That was why Xu Haoyu had not cultivated at the academy.

Sitting cross-legged atop a large boulder, Xu Haoyu took the scroll of the Yin Yang Rotation Art from his Storage Ring and opened it. It was densely covered in writing, but it was not meant to be read with the eyes. He immediately pressed the scroll against his forehead, released his soul perception into it, and studied it through that soul perception.

In an instant, a vast torrent of information entered Xu Haoyu's mind along with his soul perception. This powerful Earth Rank Middle Level cultivation art was divided into the Yin Scroll and the Yang Scroll, each exquisitely profound. The Light and Darkness Dou Qi cultivated from them could gather within a single person: extreme yin gave rise to yang, and extreme yang gave rise to yin. It expounded that all things were not wholly opposed, but could complement, balance, and merge with one another. It was an exceptionally profound concept.

After a long while, Xu Haoyu slowly opened his eyes and inwardly sighed. As expected of an Earth Rank Middle Level cultivation art—it would definitely bring him an enormous improvement.

Xu Haoyu first adjusted his condition. Only after reaching his absolute peak did he close his eyes, sink his mind into his dantian, and look at his Seven-Colored Dou Crystal.

With a thought, the Seven-Colored Dou Crystal trembled. Soon, two streams of Dou Qi were stripped from it. They were both milky white streams of Dou Qi—in truth, No Attribute Dou Qi.

These two streams of Dou Qi were extremely weak, roughly at the level of a Dou Zhe. Under Xu Haoyu's guidance, they entered two meridians in his body that had never been opened before.

They traveled through the meridians, their attributes gradually changing. Xu Haoyu possessed the Myriad Laws Body, a physique of All Attributes.

The Light Attribute Energy and Dark Attribute Energy that had lain dormant within his body, never before unearthed, now condensed into countless black and white motes of light. They separately merged into the two streams of Dou Qi within the meridians, causing the originally milky white Dou Qi to take on color—one white, the other black.

The white Dou Qi carried warmth, righteousness, and holiness, while the black Dou Qi carried coldness, depth, and darkness.

After completing a full circulation, they had thoroughly transformed into their respective attributes, one black and one white, without the slightest trace of impurity.

At this point, Xu Haoyu began circulating the Guiyi True Art, incorporating the Dou Qi circulation paths of the Yin Yang Rotation Art into the Guiyi True Art's grand circulation.

Boom! Boom!

Xu Haoyu's body was like a precision machine. Now that its switch had been flipped, vast and powerful Dou Qi began circulating through his meridians.

Like floodwaters unleashed from a dam, it surged wildly with a thunderous roar and erupted with unparalleled suction.

Outside, Xu Haoyu's body seemed like a bottomless abyss, beginning to frantically absorb the Heaven and Earth Energy of the outside world.

Heaven and Earth Energy from within a hundred meters—even a thousand meters—was drawn toward him in massive quantities. Though this energy was highly impure, its sheer volume was staggering.

It even stirred up fierce winds, forming a vortex above Xu Haoyu's head, filled with motley Heaven and Earth Energy.

It was directly poured into Xu Haoyu's body. This impure energy was continuously compressed within his meridians until it became pure Dou Qi, whereupon it merged with the Dou Qi already present in his meridians.

Almost visibly, the Light and Darkness Attribute Dou Qi Xu Haoyu had cultivated through the Yin Yang Rotation Art was rapidly growing stronger.

One day...

Two days...

Three days...

Seven days...

Over those seven days, Xu Haoyu cultivated wholeheartedly without rest or sleep, finally raising both his Light and Darkness Attribute Dou Qi to the level of a Nine Star Da Dou Shi.

Because Xu Haoyu himself was already a Nine Star Da Dou Shi, his body, meridians, and Dou Qi... had all already been developed. That was why he could absorb energy and refine it into Dou Qi in such a short time.

It was like a powerful cultivator who had reached Nine Star Da Dou Shi—even if all their Dou Qi was exhausted, as long as they could sit in meditation peacefully, they could recover quickly.

At this moment, the fusion of cultivation arts and Dou Qi had reached its most critical stage. Xu Haoyu's mind sank into his dantian.

He controlled two vast and powerful streams of Dou Qi, one black and one white, drawing them out of his meridians and gathering them into the Seven-Colored Dou Crystal!

Crack! Crack!

Amid a series of cracking sounds, Xu Haoyu's Seven-Colored Dou Crystal, already at its limit, seemed to have been pushed to the brink of exploding by the two streams of Dou Qi.

Naturally, Xu Haoyu would not allow it to explode. A massive amount of soul perception surged forth as he began compressing the Seven-Colored Dou Crystal with all his strength, forcibly pressing it back from the verge of explosion.

Thump! Thump...

The Seven-Colored Dou Crystal expanded and contracted like a heart, undergoing a peculiar transformation.

Xu Haoyu gritted his teeth and persevered. When his Seven-Colored Dou Crystal had pulsed eighty-one times in succession, it finally seemed to stabilize completely.

A powerful and vast force was released from the Dou Crystal, coursing through his meridians, spreading throughout his body, and merging into his Four Limbs and Skeletal Structure. His body transformed and began strengthening further.

Amid this transformation, Xu Haoyu's consciousness finally clearly saw his brand-new Dou Crystal.

It was a Nine-Colored Dou Crystal, shaped like a sea urchin. A Sea Urchin Dou Crystal—Xu Haoyu's heart stirred. This was the Sea Urchin Dou Crystal possessed only by Dou Ling experts.

Cultivating the Yin Yang Rotation Art had actually driven his own breakthrough, allowing him to advance from a Nine Star Da Dou Shi to a One Star Dou Ling.

Dou Ling experts possessed the ability to condense objects from Dou Qi. Compared to a Dou Shi's Dou Qi Gauze or a Da Dou Shi's Dou Qi Armor, the objects condensed from a Dou Ling's Dou Qi were indistinguishable from the real thing.

Only after a long while did Xu Haoyu finally open his eyes. Brilliant nine-colored light flashed through them before vanishing, and they returned to their clear black-and-white appearance.

Xu Haoyu then rose and jumped down from the boulder, stretching lazily and moving his limbs as he felt the inexhaustible power coursing through his body.

A trace of excitement appeared on his face. At last, Xu Haoyu could not help but burst into laughter.

"Cultivating the Yin Yang Revolving Art not only allowed me to successfully break through to One Star Dou Ling, but also raised my Guiyi True Art to Earth Rank Middle Level. Advancing even a minor grade for cultivation arts above Earth Rank is actually this difficult. It looks like I'll need to gather even more powerful cultivation arts to fuse in the future!"